752 - The Health Care Crisis At the U.S.-Mexico Border Part 1: Children and Families
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In part one of a two-part series about the crisis of health care for immigrants and refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border, Dr. Janine Young, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Diego, talks with Stephanie Desmon about the tenuous situation for children and families. More and more people are showing up at the border in poor health—dehydrated, malnourished, some severely injured and many traumatized—without any adequate care to meet them. They talk about the immigration policies that have led to a system ill-equipped to properly triage and treat the children and families seeking refuge in the U.S., and the misconceptions around people who are fleeing for their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:31.9 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.4 | Today we present the first of a two-part series on the health of migrants at the |
| 0:39.1 | U.S.-Mexico border. Stephanie Desmond talks with Dr. Janine Young, a pediatrician at the University |
| 0:45.0 | of California, San Diego, and an expert on immigrant and refugee health. They discuss what |
| 0:50.6 | happens when people, including young children, arrive severely injured, |
| 0:55.3 | dehydrated, and malnourished, and traumatized. |
| 0:58.8 | Let's listen. |
| 1:00.0 | Janine Young, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:03.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:04.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:05.0 | I wanted to talk to you today about the healthcare situation for the migrants crossing into California from the southern border of the United States. |
| 1:14.3 | I know that there are a lot more migrants than expected and they need to be sheltered and they need to be fed and they need to get health care. |
| 1:22.2 | But that hasn't always been the case. |
| 1:24.5 | That is true. |
| 1:25.7 | What's happening currently and what we've seen happen over the past year, |
| 1:31.8 | and it evolves all the time, is that back in September of 2023 and before that there were |
| 1:40.3 | more and more arrivals coming into the U.S. And, you know, at the California Southern Border, Customs and Border Protection has detention centers, but when they're filled, there's nowhere else for these migrants to go. |
| 1:58.6 | And so they are still, as I'm speaking today, left out in an unprotected detention |
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